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Advent mit Rilke
Bekannte Autoren begleiten durch den Advent - Ein Briefbuch mit 24 geheimnisvollen Seiten zum Aufschneiden.
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2005
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About the author
Rainer Maria Rilke
1,809 books6,967 followersA mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include
The Book of Hours
(1905) and
The Duino Elegies
(1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
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August 8, 2023
Another obligatory "yeah, Rilke is the best" type of review after finishing this, but yeah. I can't really say much, similarly to the last collection that I read of his, it's very brief but pretty much perfect and filled with beauty, craftsmanship and sincerity. 'Advent' is a wonderful little work of his that features very distinct but individually powerful sections, especially the ones about discoveries, gifts and mothers, and it's so powerful that I probably marked like half of the poems so that I know to which ones I want to go back to. The recurring symbols and how the different poems of a section connect is really cohesive and lends itself to enhancing the connection and contrast between one poem and other. This is quite a sad one, or at least a rather bleak one, as it features themes that he usually talks about in a positive manner and places them into a juxtaposition in which he explores the darker aspect of a given idea, but it's still not any less wonderful to read.
Yet, this is still early-phase Rilke, so who knows how much more this man is going to affect me in the near future. I like to go through each collection at a slow pace, only when I'm really in the right mind for it, but when that happens, they're some of the most powerful experiences I've had with literature.
Yet, this is still early-phase Rilke, so who knows how much more this man is going to affect me in the near future. I like to go through each collection at a slow pace, only when I'm really in the right mind for it, but when that happens, they're some of the most powerful experiences I've had with literature.
April 12, 2023
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